4 Tips To Help You Engage Using Better Vocabulary

Vocabulary, reading, learning new words, engaging in Conversations are some of the challenges bloggers face.

Some people find it hard to engage in conversation with other bloggers. Often I have felt intimidated or uneasy trying to even communicate with more professional bloggers. I needed to find a solution to feeling inadequate in speaking with other writers. Learning to expand the knowledge base for vocabulary wasn’t too difficult to find.

1. READ, READ, READ

Reading stimulates the parietal lobe part of the brain that turns letters into words and words into thoughts. The parietal lobe is mainly recognized for its ability to increase writing skills and help with reading comprehension.

2. FIND A LIST OF WORDS

Find a list of words such as doing a search on the internet for power words. For example I searched power words and found this great list of positive words to start incorporating into my writing.

3. ENGAGE IN CONVERSATIONS

Engage in an actual conversation with a real person instead of texting or emailing them. Pick up the phone and call them. The person on the other end may say a word that you are not familiar with so write it down, save it in your phone and look up the spelling and meaning later. Start to incorporate it into everyday life.

4. WORD GAMES

Recently I have become addicted to the game ” Words With Friends”. Have you played it? It’s just like the old board game “Scrabble” but on your laptop, PC or phone. Challenging to say the least!

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Something that I really need, especially that I am not a native English speaker. it often happens to me that I have to stop to think of what I am writing in my own language and then translated to English and often the translation doesn’t have the same power when written in English with good writing skills in the first place.

Working on enhancing my skill by reading a lot of blog posts, commenting on them and writing my own blog posts. The article on expanding my vocabulary and the list of power words will be a great help. Really thanks for sharing.

Hi Alicia,
Great post. I use the dictionary and thesaurus a lot when I’m writing. The list of positive words is awesome. I’ll be using that from now on too.

I know what you mean about feeling like you are totally lost when reading some blogs. Many times I have to stop and look up a word that I’ve never heard of but it’s in my vocabulary library from then on.

Hi Alicia,
what an amazing post!
Yes, Read, Read, Read and again Read!
It surely enhance your word knowledge as well as get the urge to write more.
Yes, read, read, and read and read it surely give you the inspiration to write. I can very well say this and relate very much to this.
Thanks for sharing the other resource links in relation to this subject.
Keep sharing.
Have a blessed weekend.
~ Phil

I can’t help but wonder if you wrote this article because you, like me, get several blog comments full of misspelling and poor grammar? Some are so bad that I do not even approve the comment. I do feel that I am always expanding my vocabulary. It began years ago when I purchased my first “Word of the Day” calendar.

Those are great resources for anyone wanting to improve their vocabulary.

However, I think that good communication in blogging isn’t particularly about using complicated words. It’s about saying something relevant (to the post, when commenting), watching spelling, grammar and making sense. My browser warns me of bad spelling and bad grammar, and if more people took notice of those warning there would be better blog posts.

Complicated and technical words are very off-putting unless explained – especially when many readers don’t have English as their first language.

That said, improving your vocabulary can be important for professionals in any field and those are excellent resources. Thanks for sharing.

Great advice, Alicia
This is right what I love. I am always after new words.
And what you suggest are good tips to improve vocabulary
which helps in expressing better what we have to say and
writing better blog posts.
Thank you
Erika